Looks like Jimmy Kimmel’s got an escape hatch ready — and it’s not just another punchline. The 57-year-old ABC late-night host, who’s made a career out of trashing Donald Trump and lecturing half the country, casually revealed he now holds Italian citizenship. The timing? Oh, just as Trump is settling back into the White House.
The big reveal came during a podcast with his ex-girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, where the conversation turned to Americans who “don’t approve of Trump” seeking citizenship elsewhere. Silverman teed it up, and Kimmel swung away. “I do have… I did get Italian citizenship,” he admitted. “I do have that.”
And because no Kimmel appearance is complete without a fresh round of doom-and-gloom, he went on to describe Trump’s return as “worse than you thought it was gonna be” — so bad, in fact, that it’s “probably even worse than [Trump] would like it to be.” Translation: The sky is falling, again.
See Ya!
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel announces he has secured Italian citizenship – declares Donald Trump’s presidency is “so much worse” than he ever imagined.
Can we hope he will ACTUALLY leave the country? pic.twitter.com/Q1cPTRlcg1
— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) August 9, 2025
But then, in an interesting twist, Kimmel said he thinks people who regret supporting Trump shouldn’t be shunned. He even invoked Joe Rogan, pointing to recent clips where Rogan questioned Trump’s policies on deportation. “I don’t buy into that. I don’t believe ‘F*** you, you supported him,’” Kimmel said. “If you want to change your mind… you are welcome.”
Touching sentiment from a guy who’s made a living off calling those same voters idiots for the better part of a decade.
According to Italian news agency Ansa, Kimmel secured his dual citizenship earlier this year by proving his family ties to the island of Ischia, where his great-grandparents lived before an 1883 earthquake drove them to New York. Now, if the political climate gets too “unbearable” for him, he’s got a second passport ready to go — a literal plan B.
And he’s not the only celebrity eyeing the exits. Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres have already acted on their “get me out of here” instincts, heading to Ireland and England respectively. While they haven’t been shy about their distaste for Trump, they’ve been much quieter about their decision to uproot themselves from the America they once claimed to represent.
Meanwhile, over in the world of late-night television, the job security forecast isn’t exactly sunny. Stephen Colbert’s Late Show was canceled back in July, and Trump wasted no time predicting Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon would be “next” to go. If that happens, the “arrivederci” could come a lot sooner than planned.
For now, Kimmel’s still behind the desk at ABC, delivering nightly monologues aimed at the president and his supporters. But the fact that he’s already secured a European getaway spot says a lot about where his head’s at. Sure, he’s still here — but his passport might already be sitting on the kitchen counter, just in case the “worst” he keeps warning about actually happens.
⬆️ I went to a Jimmy Kimmel taping.
They tell you when to laugh. They tell you when to clap. Jimmy makes no eye contact with the audience. Delegates everything.
He sits there like a mindless. robot until he’s activated.
Italy awaits, Jimmy… pic.twitter.com/WUpCmf4297
— EnzymeX (@EnzymeX) August 9, 2025
So the question isn’t whether Jimmy Kimmel is ready to leave. It’s whether he’s sticking around long enough to pack his own bags, or if the ratings — and the voters he’s been mocking for years — will end up doing that for him.
